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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because 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 educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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