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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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