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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational ventures. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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