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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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