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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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