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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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