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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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