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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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