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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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