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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Educators want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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