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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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