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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecotech Institute to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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