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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning enable humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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