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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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