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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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