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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free 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 issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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