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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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