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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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