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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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