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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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