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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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