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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Clemson University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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