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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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