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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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