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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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