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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better grasp these new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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