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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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