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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education