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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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