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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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