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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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