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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Broward College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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