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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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