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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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