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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning enable students all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also reviews 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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