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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not 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 blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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