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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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