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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? 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 institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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