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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to consider now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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