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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Panama to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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