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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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