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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning have enabled learners all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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