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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology make it possible for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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