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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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