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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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