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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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