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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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