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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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