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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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