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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning technology enable students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. 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. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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