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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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