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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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