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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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