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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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