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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners 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 a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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