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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education enable humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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