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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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