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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to better understand these significant new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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