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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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