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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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