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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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