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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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