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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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