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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp these significant new open education ventures. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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