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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education technology enable learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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