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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online learning enable students all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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