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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rutgers University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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