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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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