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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open education ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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