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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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