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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Anguilla to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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