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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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