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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in blended learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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