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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations must deal with 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 we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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