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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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