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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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