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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free 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 topics that blended learning institutions are considering now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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