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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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