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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this expanding need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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