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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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