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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in blended learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally 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 a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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