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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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