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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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