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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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