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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students 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 numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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