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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Hong Kong to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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