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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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