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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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