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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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