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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in digital education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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