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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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