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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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