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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in online education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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