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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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