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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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