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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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