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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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