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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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