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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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