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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not 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 institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Suriname to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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