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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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