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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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