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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in digital education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eritrea to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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