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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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