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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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