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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free 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 online learning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? 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 Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Teachers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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