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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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