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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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