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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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