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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. 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 MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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