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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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