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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free but do not always 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 organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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