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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major 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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