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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. 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. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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