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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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