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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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