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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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