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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are typically free but do not always 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 also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education ventures. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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