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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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