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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are 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 a lot of topics that blended learning organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources