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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily 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 numerous topics that online education organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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