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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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