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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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