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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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