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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in learning technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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