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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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