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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the key 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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