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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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