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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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