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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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