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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are considering now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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