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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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