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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Scientists want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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