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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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