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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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