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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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