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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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