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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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