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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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