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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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