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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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