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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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