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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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