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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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