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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning are empowering humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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