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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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