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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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