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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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