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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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