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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is improving 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 teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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