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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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