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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in 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. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Abkhazia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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