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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online education have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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