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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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