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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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