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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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