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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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