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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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