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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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