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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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