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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open education ventures. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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