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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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