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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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