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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students 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 a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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