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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education initiatives. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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