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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically 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 topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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