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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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