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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better understand these important new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources