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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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