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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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