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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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