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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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