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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better understand these interesting new open education ventures. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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