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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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