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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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