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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are 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 many topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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