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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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