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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources