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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Book About Massive Open Online Courses