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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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