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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology are empowering students all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. 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 organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to understand these important new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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