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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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