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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education undertakings. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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