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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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