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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates 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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