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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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