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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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