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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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