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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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