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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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