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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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