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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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