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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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