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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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