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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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