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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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