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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning enable people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for students 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open education undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also addresses the 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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