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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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