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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates 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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