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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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