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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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