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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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