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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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