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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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