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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education are empowering people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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