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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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