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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology enable students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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