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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with 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 educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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