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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ecotech Institute to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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