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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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