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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like North Seattle Community College to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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