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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free 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 many issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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