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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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