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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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