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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning make it possible for students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting 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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