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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing 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 organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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