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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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