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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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