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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand these important new open education endeavours. Instructors want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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