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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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