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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. 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 we assure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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