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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes 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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