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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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