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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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