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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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