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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online education are enabling people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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