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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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