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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning have made it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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