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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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