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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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