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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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