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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally 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 a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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