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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in e-learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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