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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online courses. 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 MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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