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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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