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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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