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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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