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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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