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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for students all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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