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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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