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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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