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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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