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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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