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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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