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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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