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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several subjects that online education institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open educational undertakings. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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