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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better understand these open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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