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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education undertakings. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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