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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are typically 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 several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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