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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Utah to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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