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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students 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 variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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