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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning enable students all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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