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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners 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 elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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