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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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