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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important 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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