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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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