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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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