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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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