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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also deals with 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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