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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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