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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education ventures. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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