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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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