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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that elearning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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