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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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