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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. 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 open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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