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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tajikistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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