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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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