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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education endeavours. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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