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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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