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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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