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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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