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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education undertakings. Teachers want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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