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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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