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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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