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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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