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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Chad to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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