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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education have enabled students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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