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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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