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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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