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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in digital education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. 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 to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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