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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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