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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology make it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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