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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 several subjects that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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