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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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