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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning enable people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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