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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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