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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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