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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these open education initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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