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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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