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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online 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 quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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