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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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