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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes 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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