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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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