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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually 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 a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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