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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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