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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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