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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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