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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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