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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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