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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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