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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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