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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning make it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)