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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better grasp these intriguing new open education ventures. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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