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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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