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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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