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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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