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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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