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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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