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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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