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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. 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 massive open courses are almost always free for learners 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions must deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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