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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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