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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in distance learning enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. 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 classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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