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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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