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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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