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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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