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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these new open education ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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