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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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