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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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