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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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