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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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