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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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