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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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