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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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