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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in 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 massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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