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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. 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 online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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