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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable students all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also explores the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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