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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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