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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses 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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