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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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