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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that blended 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 certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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