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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are generally 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 quite a few topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these significant new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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