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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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