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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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