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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education make it possible for humans all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Instructors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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