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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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