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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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