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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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