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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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