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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. 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. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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