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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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