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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in courses 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 massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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