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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently 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 variety of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education ventures. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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