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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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