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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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