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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. People want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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