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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology enable students all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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