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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. 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. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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