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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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