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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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