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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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