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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly 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 lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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