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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education ventures. Trainers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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