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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the 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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