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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. 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 education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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