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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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