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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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