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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free 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 variety of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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