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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to better perceive these fascinating new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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