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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are considering now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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