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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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