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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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