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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in distance learning enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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