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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. 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. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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