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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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