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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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