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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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