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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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