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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning have empowered learners all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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