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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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