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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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