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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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