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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are empowering people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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