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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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