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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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