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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. People want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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