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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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