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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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