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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are mostly 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 several issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to understand these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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