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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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