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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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