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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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