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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Armenia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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