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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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