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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education are enabling students in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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