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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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