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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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