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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology enable learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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