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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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