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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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