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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these new open educational ventures. Professors want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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