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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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