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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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