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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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