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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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