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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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