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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. 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 organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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