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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in elearning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important 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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