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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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