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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the 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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