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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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