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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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