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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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