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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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