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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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