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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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