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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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