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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in blended learning technology enable learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners 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 must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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