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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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