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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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