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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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