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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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