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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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