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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because 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 institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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