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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many issues that learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education