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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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