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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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