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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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