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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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