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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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