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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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