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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education ventures. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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