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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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