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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the 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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