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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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