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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology enable learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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