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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in online classes. 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 massive online courses are free 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 issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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