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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 (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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