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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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