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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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