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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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