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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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