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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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