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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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