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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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