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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology make it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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