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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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