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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are generally free 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 many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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