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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wellesley College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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