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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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