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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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