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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always 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 quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Maldives to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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