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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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