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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Panama to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these open education experiments. People want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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