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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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