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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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