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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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