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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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