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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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