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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are customarily 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 numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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