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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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