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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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