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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Professors want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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