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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily 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 issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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