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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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