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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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