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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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