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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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