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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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