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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are enabling humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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