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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education initiatives. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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