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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Lebanon to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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