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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. 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 massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Trainers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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