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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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