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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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