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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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