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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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