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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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