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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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