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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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