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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC 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 issues that online education organizations are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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