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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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