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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology enable students all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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