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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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