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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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