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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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