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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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