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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Emory University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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