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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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