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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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