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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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