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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. 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 participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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