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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also examines the 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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