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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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