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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are making it possible for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free 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 a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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