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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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