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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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