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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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