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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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