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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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