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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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