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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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