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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Niue to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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