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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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