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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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