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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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