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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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