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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning 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 stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like New Caledonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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