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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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