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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are enabling students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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