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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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