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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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