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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. 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 considering in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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