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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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