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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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