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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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