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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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