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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Instructors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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