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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled students all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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