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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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