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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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