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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have empowered learners all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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