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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Chad to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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